Same happens here..house is always warm so it perishes quicker. Keep most fruit in the fridge now to keep it longer
Quite honestly, I find the fruit & vegetables great at Lidl. W a y better than Supervalue or Tesco
I’ve stopped buying all fruit in those 2 shops because of this. Dunnes is the best tbh.
ProTip: Don’t mix your old and new fruit together, use a fruit bowl and wash it weekly.
There are various tips and tricks – some stuff you should stick in the fridge (like carrots), and stuff that you shouldn’t. Also certain fruits give off chemicals while decaying which can cause accelerated ripening in other fruits.
You should also in general remove the plastic bags they come in although it seems counter-intuitive, but letting them “breathe” tends to help them last longer.
Doesn’t happen to me so could be your house. Are all the fruit near a window?
I’m tempted to run an experiment on this, because as often as I read it on here it has never really been the case for me. It’s pretty much a wash between all the major supermarkets in my experience when it comes to fresh produce and shelf life.
The Aldi Mangerines are awful for this.
I’ve worked in a supervalu for 3 years I’m the fruit n veg department, besides not buying loose veg (honestly I wouldn’t buy any of it anymore)
Wash your fruit weekly
Don’t mix old and new fruit
Make sure you eat fruit daily so you actually get through it
Fly net and wash your fruit bowl regularly
I find Lidl fruit to be fantastic. Always just at the right stage of ripeness to last the week. You really have to know what your looking for though. I like to “feel” the fruit and encourage everyone else to do the same. So always wash fruit and veg before you use/eat them.
A couple years ago this sub used to be psychotically pro-Lidl/Aldi. Now every other day there’s a post shitting on them. Kinda weird. I’m out the gap so maybe things there are genuinely worse these days idk
Advice: put it in the fridge
I usually keep fruit and veggies from Lidl for a long time this way
The best thing I have done in the last year is start to shop in my local grocer, I get all my fruit and veg for the week and a tray of 20 eggs for about €25/30, the quality is so much better and they last longer than supermarket stuff and it’s not wrapped in plastic!
I will say I don’t have a Lidl near me but the last place I lived it was around the corner and the quality was always good.
It’s really hit and miss when it comes to fruit and veg. One supermarket has a good supplier for X, another has a good supplier for Y.
SuperValue have the best avocados by far. In Tescos and Dunnes they’re dirt – you wouldn’t feed them to animals.
But Tesco have the best blueberries and fresh flowers – much as it pains me to say. Dunnes have the worst flowers – wilting after 3 days.
Support your local farmers market if you have one. The prices usually aren’t any dearer than organic stuff in a supermarket, and you know it’s been harvested the day or two before hand, and not the week or two.
Another tip, if you get a head of lettuce, put it in a shallow bowl of water, so the area where the roots should be is sitting in the water. Then put it on a windowsill and it will last much longer. This also works for scallions, and I’d guess other veg
It’s the time of the year.
Beginning of Northern hemisphere’s season, end of the Southern’s.
Is that the Stanley cup?
Freeze it.
Aldi meat is terrible the amount of times mince or chicken bad 3 days before end date
Gotta store them correctly. Keep bananas away from everything.
Go to dunnes, i bought a bag of pink lady apples a few days ago. I think they’re getting fresher.
don’t buy veg in plastic, it has nitrogen gas inside keeping the food fresh even when it’s not anymore, as soon as you remove the packaging it goes off, and even if its not filled with nitrogen plastic makes food go off sooner
My kitchen is always freezing so everything last ages.
Infact, i don’t bother buying mangos anymore because they never ripen.
try ‘ripen-at-home’ fruits, some will be ready to eat when you buy them and then the rest will ripen over time as you have them
Ever noticed the lighting near the fruit stands or near the deli meats fridge?
Next time your in, watch how it changes when you move around. They use different light temperatures to make the food look better
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Same happens here..house is always warm so it perishes quicker. Keep most fruit in the fridge now to keep it longer
Quite honestly, I find the fruit & vegetables great at Lidl. W a y better than Supervalue or Tesco
I’ve stopped buying all fruit in those 2 shops because of this. Dunnes is the best tbh.
ProTip: Don’t mix your old and new fruit together, use a fruit bowl and wash it weekly.
There are various tips and tricks – some stuff you should stick in the fridge (like carrots), and stuff that you shouldn’t. Also certain fruits give off chemicals while decaying which can cause accelerated ripening in other fruits.
You should also in general remove the plastic bags they come in although it seems counter-intuitive, but letting them “breathe” tends to help them last longer.
Doesn’t happen to me so could be your house. Are all the fruit near a window?
I’m tempted to run an experiment on this, because as often as I read it on here it has never really been the case for me. It’s pretty much a wash between all the major supermarkets in my experience when it comes to fresh produce and shelf life.
The Aldi Mangerines are awful for this.
I’ve worked in a supervalu for 3 years I’m the fruit n veg department, besides not buying loose veg (honestly I wouldn’t buy any of it anymore)
Wash your fruit weekly
Don’t mix old and new fruit
Make sure you eat fruit daily so you actually get through it
Fly net and wash your fruit bowl regularly
I find Lidl fruit to be fantastic. Always just at the right stage of ripeness to last the week. You really have to know what your looking for though. I like to “feel” the fruit and encourage everyone else to do the same. So always wash fruit and veg before you use/eat them.
A couple years ago this sub used to be psychotically pro-Lidl/Aldi. Now every other day there’s a post shitting on them. Kinda weird. I’m out the gap so maybe things there are genuinely worse these days idk
Advice: put it in the fridge
I usually keep fruit and veggies from Lidl for a long time this way
The best thing I have done in the last year is start to shop in my local grocer, I get all my fruit and veg for the week and a tray of 20 eggs for about €25/30, the quality is so much better and they last longer than supermarket stuff and it’s not wrapped in plastic!
I will say I don’t have a Lidl near me but the last place I lived it was around the corner and the quality was always good.
It’s really hit and miss when it comes to fruit and veg. One supermarket has a good supplier for X, another has a good supplier for Y.
SuperValue have the best avocados by far. In Tescos and Dunnes they’re dirt – you wouldn’t feed them to animals.
But Tesco have the best blueberries and fresh flowers – much as it pains me to say. Dunnes have the worst flowers – wilting after 3 days.
Support your local farmers market if you have one. The prices usually aren’t any dearer than organic stuff in a supermarket, and you know it’s been harvested the day or two before hand, and not the week or two.
Another tip, if you get a head of lettuce, put it in a shallow bowl of water, so the area where the roots should be is sitting in the water. Then put it on a windowsill and it will last much longer. This also works for scallions, and I’d guess other veg
It’s the time of the year.
Beginning of Northern hemisphere’s season, end of the Southern’s.
Is that the Stanley cup?
Freeze it.
Aldi meat is terrible the amount of times mince or chicken bad 3 days before end date
Gotta store them correctly. Keep bananas away from everything.
Go to dunnes, i bought a bag of pink lady apples a few days ago. I think they’re getting fresher.
don’t buy veg in plastic, it has nitrogen gas inside keeping the food fresh even when it’s not anymore, as soon as you remove the packaging it goes off, and even if its not filled with nitrogen plastic makes food go off sooner
My kitchen is always freezing so everything last ages.
Infact, i don’t bother buying mangos anymore because they never ripen.
try ‘ripen-at-home’ fruits, some will be ready to eat when you buy them and then the rest will ripen over time as you have them
Ever noticed the lighting near the fruit stands or near the deli meats fridge?
Next time your in, watch how it changes when you move around. They use different light temperatures to make the food look better